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Contents:
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- A GLIMPSE OF GAY PRI THE 1950S
- '100 YEARS OF MEN LOVE': NEW FILM UNEARTHS OLD STORI OF GAY ROMANCE
- 17 INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW MEN IN LOVE FROM THE 1850S TO 1950S WHEN BEG GAY WAS ILLEGAL
- ‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
- SEARCH FOR A GAY UPLE WHO GOT MARRIED THE 1950S BUT NEVER GOT THEIR PHOTOS
- GAY PRI THE 1950S: THE PHOTO BOOTH AS A SAFE SPACE
NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv shar a rare glimpse at gay life the 1950s honor of LGBT Pri month. * 1950s gay couple *
One such muny was Cherry Grove, which is the subject of an exhibn at the New-York Historil Society tled Safe/Haven: Gay Life 1950s Cherry Grove. As a trans woman, I fely felt like I was not prent Cherry Grove at that time, but gay men and women were there, rvg out space that I get to hab today. Soon the “theater people” would start to formulate a strong muny where people were able to be openly gay; they uld cross-drs and play wh genr mak the photos so wonrful is that they are very rare.
Simply havg photos veloped that reflected homosexualy uld get you arrted. We have a lot of lost history that was thrown away, so the photos om the archiv add so much to our knowledge of what gay life was like. The people are iendly, and we have always been on the ont of LGBTQ+ rights and fightg for eedom to be out and the 1950s, there was no nng water and no electricy, but gay men and women were happy to be roughg bee they were ee to be themselv.
If you were gay the cy, you went to the dark and dgy bars, which were n by the Mafia, and at any time uld be raid by the police and you uld be Cherry Grove, the police would leave on the last ferry to the maland at midnight, allowg same-sex dancg and open exprsns of affectn to occur the lol bars and rtrants.
A GLIMPSE OF GAY PRI THE 1950S
A new documentary based on a vast llectn of old photos featurg gay men love gog back to the mid-1800s has ma s televisn but. “100 Years of Me * 1950s gay couple *
Each year, thoands of people e together to drs up and celebrate Inpennce Day the gayt way possible … wh hundreds of drag queens on a ferry returng to the P to keep the tradn gog. When muny members Cherry Grove would pass away, their straight fay members would clean out their ho to sell bee they did not want to live a “gay town. The fay members often threw out any evince of their gay uncl or s.
When we saw the photos om Seeley's llectn, we saw that was addg somethg to the lexin of gay life. Whenever people show somethg a documentary or a book, most of the photos of gay life start at Stonewall and go on om there.
We feel lucky that the NYHS saw the value gay history, bee not everyone the Stonewall Mm, most of the patrons are queer.
'100 YEARS OF MEN LOVE': NEW FILM UNEARTHS OLD STORI OF GAY ROMANCE
A historic image gallery showg gay upl om the days when beg gay was lerally a crime worldwi is displayed the new book "Lovg: A Photographic History of Men Love, 1850s-1950s." The work of Hugh Ni and Neal Treadwell featur a llectn of historil imag of gay upl that they both llected throughout their liv. * 1950s gay couple *
“Lovg” featur around 300 photos that offer an timate look at gay relatnships between the 1850s and 1950s. Gay Rights,. ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv at the Universy of Southern California Librari, the largt reposory of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer materials the world, shared a heartwarmg uple of photos wh Time of two gay men showg affectn a photo booth durg the early 1950s honor of LGBT Pri public displays of affectn by same-sex upl are monplace today, the fact that this picture was taken 1953 - a time when LGBT people uld be arrted for simply holdg hands wh someone of the same sex - mak a powerful and betiful image monstratg the spir of LGBT Pri.
A new documentary based on a vast llectn of old photos featurg gay men love gog back to the mid-1800s has ma s televisn but. Ni and Treadwell began their llectn 22 years ago when the uple stumbled upon a rare, century-old photo of a gay uple an antique shop. Sce then, the men have been llectg thoands of imag of gay men datg that go back 170 years.
Laws crimalizg gay sex. And even today, homosexualy is crimalized approximately 70 untri. A historic image gallery showg gay upl om the days when beg gay was lerally a crime worldwi is displayed the new book "Lovg: A Photographic History of Men Love, 1850s-1950s.
17 INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW MEN IN LOVE FROM THE 1850S TO 1950S WHEN BEG GAY WAS ILLEGAL
Dozens of gay men gather for a pool party a seclud spot Hillsboro, Missouri. Home movi pture their easy affectn and reee dancg. But… * 1950s gay couple *
" The work of Hugh Ni and Neal Treadwell featur a llectn of historil imag of gay upl that they both llected throughout their liv. It was the first time that they had ntact wh a photograph so old - datg om 1920 - wh such an openly gay sAnd so began a trip that would take two s. Dozens of gay men gather for a pool party a seclud spot Hillsboro, Missouri.
Louis filmmaker Geoff Story has begun weavg the films to a documentary, “Gay Home Movie. ” It offers a rare glimpse to a largely visible world, a time when same-sex relatnships were not only looked at as immoral — they were a gay man, Story is fascated by the brtle, flickerg scen that clu a uniformed World War II soldier kissg another man. Louis’ ‘hairdrser to the stars’Watch a clip om the 1945 home movi of gay men at a pool stumbled upon the films the mid-1990s, a half century after the pool party, at an tate sale.
”‘I kept my inty separate’Richard Eaton talks about beg a gay man mid-century St. Several people who aren’t the home movi n ttify to what was like to be gay mid-century St.
‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
In the '60s, Eaton remembers lookg over his shoulr as he ventured to gay bars like Mart’s, near Unn Statn. Gay life, like all life St. The only Ain-Amerins the pool party footage are wearg whe uniforms, servg food to the other elaborate gathergs likely were nied to gay men who were not wealthy and whe, Psaczyk said.
Betty Neeley said she was never the closet and that her mother even drove her to first gay bar.
The hntg imag are nfirmatn that gay men did live and love at a time when no one dared to even speak of same-sex attractn.
SEARCH FOR A GAY UPLE WHO GOT MARRIED THE 1950S BUT NEVER GOT THEIR PHOTOS
The happs was etched on fac of the two grooms holdg hands durg their vows, as they ceremonly cut the ke, shared their first kiss, opened prents and danced wh while the ocsn was joyo, the shadow of 1950s Ameri, where gay rights were unregnized and legal same-sex marriage was many s away, was prent. 'The most important thg is that gay people have refed to be visible, ' said Skiba.
' The Wisns senator's homosexual wch hunt led to the firg of thoands of ernment employe based on their sexual preference. Fledglg gay and lbian rights anizatns, such as the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis, began to anize and be more proactive exprsg their voice. Communism and the Cold War wh the then Soviet Unn led to both the 'Red Sre' - the hunt for Communists - and the 'Lavenr Sre, ' which was those who were gay and lbian were fired om their jobs the ernment bee they were 'secury risks.
GAY PRI THE 1950S: THE PHOTO BOOTH AS A SAFE SPACE
' Above, the tradnal openg of prents after the ceremony The gay rights movement was talyzed after the Stonewall Rts of 1969. ' Above, the uple wh their iends 'The moment we saw the photographs we were eply moved by the bravery of the men who, spe sodomy laws at the time chose to document their love, ' said Hollywood producer Neal Baer, who is currently velopg a seri on the topic tled The Mystery of the 1957 Gay Weddg Photos. The gay rights movement officially galvanized 1969 when the Stonewall Rts broke out at New York Cy after the police nducted an early morng raid of the tablishment that long served as a sanctuary for the LGBT muny durg the endls wter of opprsn and discrimatn.
In the immediate wake of the protts, the gay muny formed the Gay Liberatn Front – the drivg force that would eventually lead to triumphs of the gay rights years, stat would slowly beg to follow Illois' lead wh steps toward the crimalizatn of gay relatnships but the penalti for vlatg a sodomy laws varied between jurisdictns. Above, a uple danc Long before the crimalizatn of homosexualy the Uned Stat, Thomas Jefferson proposed a bill to the Virgia State Legislature 1779 that ma homosexualy a crime punishable wh stratn.
The Victorian Era marked a huge shift the treatment of homosexualy. The Brish had been plete nial about the prence of homosexualy wh their untry. Durg the 19th century the silence England was broken, and police began actively fightg the "problem" of homosexualy.